Prairie dogs are America's answer to the meerkat - small, sociable and exceptionally cute. This offbeat film narrated by Rob Brydon takes us to the Wild West where prairie dogs live in huge colonies known as 'towns'. Like meerkats, they are comical to watch, but there is a whole lot more to prairie dogs than just being cute - they can talk. For 30 years Professor Con Slobodchikoff has been recording their calls in response to predators like coyotes, hawks and badgers. He believes he has discovered a language second only to humans in its complexity. It's a bold claim but is he right? Con has devised a series of cunning field experiments to help prove his point.
What makes a city great? The location? The architecture? The ambience? In this 6 x 50 min series, we circle the globe on a quest to discover the beating heart - and seething underbelly - of the world's most extraordinary cities. Join us as we venture through the grandest old capitals and most modern metropolises on the planet. It's Venice and New York, Hollywood and Bollywood, Cairo, Jaipur, Jerusalem, Rio and more.
The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union. Who was Stalin? The man who defeated Nazism? The “Little Father of the Peoples"? Or the greatest criminal of his time? In Apocalypse Stalin, three 52-minute episodes, Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle paint the portrait of one of the fiercest despots of the twentieth century, using archive film of the day. This footage has been perfectly restored and beautifully colorized by the Apocalypse production team. Starting with the fight to the death against Hitler, the series tells the story of the incredible rise to power of Joseph Jughashvili. This cobbler's son from Georgia started with nothing and made his way up the ranks through various intrigues and crimes, ultimately rising to absolute power and adopting the moniker Stalin - “man of steel" in Russian. From a human standpoint, the series describes the enormous tragedy that befell the Soviet people between 1878 and 1945, as they found themselves caught in a trap that became a living hell.
《执着的梦想》是一部关于早期航天飞机的纪录片。这部纪录片里面再现了航天飞机的发射、着陆过程以及宇航员的太空生活。片中最令人瞩目的片段不但有从太空拍摄的地球全景，还有宇航员们，尤其是美国第一个女宇航员太空行走的特写。 当我们回顾所有那些电影和DVD中有关人类探索太空的情节时，通常我们会想到什么？奋斗。航天计划从一开始就是无止境的冲突和混乱、试验和挫折、多灾多难和百折不挠。在乐观的背后总能看到巨大的困难，在胜利的光环下则是成千上万的意外。而这部《执着的梦想》不同。在这里，我们会对离地飞天而肃然起敬，会为从太空中观看地球之美而心跳停止，会为宇航员们的日常生活而兴味盎然。《执着的梦想》，就是这样一部珍贵的DVD，它想告诉你的就是：“嘿，怎么样，太空漫游很酷吧？” 这部IMAX电影发行于1985年，当时阿波罗计划已经过去很久。NASA面对的局面是公众普遍对航天计划漠不关心。拍这部片子仿佛就是想说：“航天非常好玩——请大家看过来，关心我们的工作。”很快所有的媒体就把目光都投向了他们，因为在1986年1月28日，发生了挑战者号爆炸事件，航天事业一下子又成了全世界的焦点。 经过了16年之后，华纳公司终于把《执着的梦想》从大银幕搬到了DVD上。与其一起发行的还有IMAX的其他一些电影。对《执着的梦想》这部老片来说，表现效果已经非常杰出了，其内容也仍然引人入胜。尽管基本上没有任何花絮，这部DVD还是非常抵买的。
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